Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems.

Dreamweaver was created byMacromedia in 1997,[1] and was maintained by them until Macromedia
was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.[2]
Adobe Dreamweaver is available for OS X and for Windows.
Following Adobe's acquisition of the Macromedia product suite, releases of Dreamweaver
subsequent to version 8.0 have been more compliant with W3C standards. Recent versions have
improved support for Web technologies such as CSS,JavaScript, and various server-side
scripting languages and frameworks including ASP (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#,
ASP.NET VB), ColdFusion, Scriptlet, and PHP.[3]
Contents

1Features

2Internationalization and localization

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2.1Language availability

2.2Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages

3Version history

4See also

5References

6External links

Features[edit]
Adobe Dreamweaver CC is a web design and development application that combines a visual
design surface known as Live View and a code editor with standard features such as syntax
highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as more sophisticated features such as
real-time syntax checking and code introspection for generating code hints to assist the user in
writing code. Combined with an array of site management tools, Dreamweaver lets its users design,
code and manage websites as well as mobile content. Dreamweaver is positioned as a versatile web
design and development tool that enables visualization of web content while coding.
Dreamweaver, like other HTML editors, edits files locally then uploads them to the remote web
server using FTP, SFTP, orWebDAV. Dreamweaver CS4 now supports the Subversion
(SVN) version control system.

Since version 5, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages out of the
box:

ActionScript

Active Server Pages (ASP).

C#

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

ColdFusion

EDML

Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

Java

JavaScript

Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)

Visual Basic (VB)

Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)

Wireless Markup Language (WML)

Support for ASP.NET and JavaServer Pages was dropped since version CS5.[4]
Users can add their own language syntax highlighting. In addition, code completion is available for
many of these languages.

Internationalization and localization[edit]

Language availability[edit]

Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean
(Windows only), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.[5]

Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages[edit]

The older Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 also features a Middle Eastern version that allows typing
Arabic, Persian, Urdu or Hebrew text (written from right to left) within the code view. Whether the text
is fully Middle Eastern (written from right to left) or includes both English and Middle Eastern text
(written left to right and right to left), it will be displayed properly.

Version history[edit]
Provider

Major

Minor

Release

version

update

date

Macromedia

1.0

December
1997

Notes

First version. Mac OS only.

1.0
1.2

2.0

2.0

3.0

March 1998

December
1998

December
1999

3.0
UltraDev
1.0

4.0

4.0

June 2000

December
2000

First Windows version

6.0

UltraDev

December

4.0

2000

MX

29 May
2002

10
7.0

MX 2004

September
2003

13
8.0

8.0

September
2005

Adobe
Systems

9.0

CS3

Last Macromedia version. Included with

Adobe CS2.3[6]

16 April

Replaces Adobe GoLive in Adobe Creative

2007

Suite

23
10.0

CS4

September
2008

11.0

CS5

11.5

CS5.5

12.0

CS6

12 April
2010

12 April
2011

Supports HTML5.

21 April

A perpetual license (disk version) and

2012

download only (Cloud version) exist with

differing menu structure

13.0

Creative

17 June

The perpetual license option is dropped in this

Cloud

2013

version.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

18 June

DOM visualization tool, Live View upgrades,

2014

CSS Designer upgrades.

14.0

CC 2014
14.1

Ability to view and extract design info and

6 October

images from Photoshop documents (PSDs),

2014

new templates, Live View upgrades, and 64bit architecture.

Responsive design capabilities with visual

16.0

CC 2015

16 June
2015

media query bars, direct integration with

the Bootstrap framework, ability to preview
and inspect content on mobile devices, and
improvements to the code editor.

References[edit]
1.

^ Jump up to:a b Dreamweaver system requirements at the Wayback Machine (archived May
17, 2009). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.

2.

Jump up^ "Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia" (PDF). Press Releases. Adobe, Inc.
Retrieved 15 November 2011.

3.

Jump up^ "Learn to build dynamic websites and web applications". Dreamweaver Developer
Center. Retrieved 15 November 2011.

4.

Jump up^ http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402489.html

5.

Jump up^ "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: System Requirements and languages". Adobe
Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 2011-01-29.

6.

Jump up^ "New Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional Enhances Adobe Creative Suite 2.3". Adobe
Systems. 18 September 2006. Retrieved 10 January 2014. Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also
bundles Dreamweaver 8

7.

Jump up^ Adobe's Subscription-Only CC Release Carries Obvious Upside But Big Risk |
Forbes

8.

Jump up^ Adobe exec: Creative Cloud complainers will love us once they try us (interview),
VentureBeat

9.

Jump up^ Adobe's Move to the Cloud Incites Anger and Other Top Comments, Mashable

10.

Jump up^ Adobe Creative Cloud: Reactions, responses and reassurance | Macworld UK

11.

Jump up^ Neil Bennett (15 May 2013) Analysis: The real reason Adobe ditched Creative
Suite for Creative Cloud, Retrieved on 2013-07-21, www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

12.

Jump up^ Adobes Creative Cloud Sparks Thunderous Revolt, 25 May 2013, truth-out.org

13.

Jump up^ Some Artists Give Adobe's Cloud Switch a Critical Review, Fox Business

"Adobe Unveils Milestone 2015 Creative Cloud Release", News Release, Adobe Systems,
16 June 2015.

"New features summary: Adobe Dreamweaver CC (2015 release)", Dreamweaver Help,

Adobe Systems.